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Karen Vicks's avatar

We have always been told that we can achieve whatever we want... if we work hard and persevere. But when you don't succeed even after working hard for years, you start to lose faith in your beliefs... and may feel that you are no longer in charge of your destiny... I believe the less fortunate are victims of a society that no longer considers their pain of struggling, but looks at them as if they are the problem... Many folks who are police have prejudices against the very people they have agreed to serve... Policing around the Country has taken a turn for the worse by allowing the police to hire the very people who want to harm others that don't look like them and differ in their beliefs... What can be done to get rid of that policeman or woman who seeks to destroy rather than help to build better communities? “If you don’t condition yourself positively,

the world will condition you negatively”-Lalla Brutoco SOLIDARITY FOREVER!!

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Randall Vicks's avatar

The things you identify as the "real" causes of crime require money to be spent in areas that are taboo to people who already have enough and have a promise of more.

Has there ever been a culture or society in human history that did not have a lower level of human existence? And therefore is increased equity and equality even possible? This leads to the ever-present existence of crime. I guess the question is how much crime is acceptable?

https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/20-facts-about-us-inequality-everyone-should-know

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